What are you guys using to paint your bare steel wheels from summiit? What paint works well and keeps the rust of I mean..... Would love to have them powder coated but that isn't possible where I live.
I second the Hammerite, used it on a lot of things, looks good, has that orange peel/powdercoat look, and with a couple coats is actually pretty tough. They have it in a light grey and a dark grey that both look pretty good. Just my .02
I used Rustoleum Industrial (tall silver can) rust red primer(3 coats) and then gloss black (3 coats). Everyone who sees them sayys they can't believe it's rattle can. I also used a can of degreaser on each wheel to make sure all the machine oil was gone.
You might look at a product called "POR 15". They have severl product that are just sweet. I paitned my rockerpannels on my toy chevy orange with their paint, and it is REALLY tough.
Yeah... touch up is cheap. Your alot dryer down there tha I am up here... just had a 4ft snow ump and they are using some chemical crap on the roads now, really inhibits the rust ... so I wanns get some good thick junk.
I dont like the way that hammerite chips compared to reg. spray.
I had some sliders on a truck done w/ por-15 --that shits pretty tough and looks good.
Id just shoot em w/ some good rattlecan and call it good. Then touchup is easy. Any paint will chip/scratch, and IMO powdercoating them is a waste of $$.
I've used Duplicolor wheel paint (polyurethane) in the past and it has worked well. Fairly resistant to chipping. Por-15 would also work well in that respect.
Only problem with POR-15 is its not UV stable, meaning it turns white & chalkywhen hit by sun too long. I have a set of Stazworks rims on order now, will be using Rust Bullet when they arrive. Easily as durable as POR15 but UV stable & can easily be top coated or touched up. A buddy runs oval track in modifieds and has tried everything from rattlecan to powdercoat, told him to try the bullet & he says he will never use anything else again.
Only problem with POR-15 is its not UV stable, meaning it turns white & chalkywhen hit by sun too long. I have a set of Stazworks rims on order now, will be using Rust Bullet when they arrive. Easily as durable as POR15 but UV stable & can easily be top coated or touched up. A buddy runs oval track in modifieds and has tried everything from rattlecan to powdercoat, told him to try the bullet & he says he will never use anything else again.
I keep hearing this.... I'm gonna go w/ the standard rattle can job on top of a bunch of primer. Steveh made me feel like weiner wanting to get all fancy and stuff:flipoff2: .
I will post pics of the results in my build thread... And I may be heading to Ga. in the next week or two for a job out that way!
make sure they're degreased-final wash or similar product. napa usually has it. then primer-etching primer and you don't need more than one coat. if you want a higher mil then spray an additional top coat.
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